Machines Like Me: A Novel

Machines Like Me: A Novel

<b>New from Ian McEwan, Booker Prize winner and international bestselling author of <i>Atonement</i> and <i>The Children Act</i></b> <br /><br /><i>Machines Like Me</i> takes place in an alternative 1980s London. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first synthetic humans and—with Miranda's help—he designs Adam's personality. The near-perfect human that emerges is beautiful, strong, and clever. It isn't long before a love triangle soon forms, and these three beings confront a profound moral dilemma. <br />     In his subversive new novel, Ian McEwan asks whether a machine can understand the human heart—or whether we are the ones who lack understanding.